Twyla Robinson

Twyla Robinson, soprano, serves at Texas Christian University as an Associate Professor of Professional
Practice and combines her teaching with an ongoing performing career. Recent seasons have seen her
as the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos with Cincinnati Opera, Sieglinde in Act I of Die Walküre with the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the soprano soloist in Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, Sorrowful Songs with the
Chicago Sinfonietta, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi,
Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 with I Musici de Montreal Chamber Orchestra, and Claude Vivier’s
Lonely Child with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. She also created the role of Becky
Felderman in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star, with the Cincinnati Opera.

Orchestral highlights include Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder with l’Opéra National de Paris, and Mahler’s
Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand” with Jiří Bělohlávek at the opening night of the BBC Proms.
She has performed Mahler’s 8 th Symphony with orchestras such as the Houston Symphony, Toronto
Symphony, Münchner Philharmoniker, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Essen
Philharmonie, and recorded it with the Berlin Staatskapelle for Deutsche Grammophon, Pierre Boulez
conducting. Other recordings include Beethoven’s 9 th Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra
and Bernard Haitink on the LSO Live label, Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphonie with the Houston Symphony
and Hans Graf with Naxos, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and
Robert Spano with Telarc, Schubert’s Fierrabras with Franz Welser-Möst on DVD with EMI, and Strauss’
Elektra and Daphne with Semyon Bychkov and the West German Radio Orchestra on the Decca label.